Return’d with joy and, smiling, said “Dear Sir,
Thou art the late Lord Mountjoy’s son ’tis clear:
And now, (said Hollybrand, whilst in the act
Of holding forth and pointing to the fact)
This truth unquestionably doth impel
The answer I now give: God speed thee well—
O Arnold, friend indeed!” (with scarce control
O’er the emotions of his manly soul.)—
And thus—with falt’ring speech, and quite unnerv’d,
“I give my bond, for thou hast well deserv’d